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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Wonderful Wednesday Challenge

Here we are back with the Wonderful Wednesday Challenge. The theme this week is Apples or Honey and we had to use a Cricut cartridge to make our project.

I chose to use the Preserves cart that I purchased recently and it had a great apple and word file on it that I decided to use.

I cut my apple and word from cardstock and layered them up.

For the background layer, I embossed the card with the swiss dots embossing folder, using a diffuser to ensure a circle was left un-embossed. I used a spellbinders scalloped circle die to get the edge around the clear part of the card and layered the apple onto this part of the card.

Wrapped a ribbon around the top layer and added the bow. The rest of the sentiment was stamped using alphabet stamps and red Memento ink (Ladybug) then highlighted with green pen.

Tim Holtz Creative Chemistry 102

Tim Holtz Creative Chemistry 101

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Married to a wonderful husband, with two amazing adult children, a beautiful DIL, a sporty SIL, a gorgeous grand-daughter and two very cute grandsons. I have been crafting for several years and love to try out new things. Have met some wonderful people through crafting, all over the world.

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If you need a brad of a particular colour and don't have one, check to see if you have some embossing powder of the colour you want . Rub embossing ink on the top of the brad, then dip it into the embossing powder then heat set it. Use tweezers or a clip peg to hold the brad while you heat it.

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